Updated Walk Leader checklists and ICE cards

19 Hydref 2017

Thank you to our Ramblers volunteers who lead over 50,000 group walks each year – each one unique. To help you run safe and enjoyable walks, we’ve added a couple of resources to the Walk Leader toolkit.

Walk Leader checklists

We’ve republished our Walk Leader checklist, a handy list of top tips to follow before, during and after your walks.

Please note that we’ve made a couple of small changes:

Updated the information about safeguarding to reflect our revised safeguarding policy (under-18s must be accompanied by a responsible adult).

Removed the detailed first aid advice as we feel this would be better provided in a separate, dedicated resource. However, you can still find first aid guidance provided by the British Red Cross here.

In Case of Emergency (ICE) cards

These hard-wearing, waterproof cards can be filled in with personal emergency contact details and medical information.

Walk leaders should encourage everyone who joins a Ramblers activity to fill in a card, and to keep it in an accessible place (such as the top pocket of a rucksack). Should anything happen, the walk leader or emergency services can then use the ICE card to quickly establish any medical conditions and emergency contacts.